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Police: Officers shoot robbery suspect at apartment complex

A robbery suspect is being treated for gunshot wounds after being shot by police in Danvers overnight.

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Updated: 12:24 PM EDT Aug 23, 2013

Police: Officers shoot robbery suspect at apartment complex

A robbery suspect is being treated for gunshot wounds after being shot by police in Danvers overnight.

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Updated: 12:24 PM EDT Aug 23, 2013

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WEBVTT PRONOUNCED DEAD AT BMC. REPORTING LIVE, WCVB, NEWSCENTER 5. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY IN DANVERS TODAY AFTER POLICE SHOT A SUSPECT WHILE TAKING HIM INTO CUSTODY LAST NIGHT. IT ALL BEGAN WITH A REPORT OF A ROBBERY. NEWSCENTER 5'S JOHN ATWATER TALKED TO INVESTIGATORS AND JOINS US LIVE NOW FROM THE SCENE. JOHN? AND SUSAN, POLICE TELL US THEY CAME TO THE COMPLEX RIGHT AROUND 10:00 LAST NIGHT SO IT SEEMS LIKE THEY WERE THERE FOR A WHILE BECAUSE WE SPOKE WITH A MAN WHO SAYS HE DID NOT HERE GUNSHOTS UNTIL SOMETIME AFTER MIDNIGHT. I HEARD ONE INITIAL SHOT AND THEN THREE SHOTS AND MAYBE ABOUT FIVE MORE AFTER THAT, ALL WITHIN ABOUT A FIVE OR SIX SECOND SPAN. CHARLES NEIGHBORS WOKE UP TO THE GUNFIRE OUTSIDE THEIR WINDOW. THEY TOLD US TO STAY INDOORS AND LOCK OUR DOORS. INVESTIGATORS SAY POLICE SHOT A SUSPECT WHO LIVES IN A UNIT ON KIRKBRIDE DRIVE. OFFICERS CAME HERE RESPONDING TO AN ALLEGED ASSAULT. THEY WERE LOOKING TO TAKE A SUSPECT INTO CUSTODY AND AT THAT TIME THERE WAS A POLICE SHOOTING. POLICE SAY THAT SUSPECT COMMITTED A ROBBERY AND A MAN WHO LIVES HERE SAYS A GOOD TWO HOURS PASSED BY THE TIME POLICE ARRIVED AND THE TIME SHOTS RANG OUT. PRETTY MUCH ALL THAT I HEARD PRIOR TO THAT WAS THEM EITHER TALKING OR YELLING. IT WAS FAR AWAY SO I COULDN'T DEFIREFIGHTER WHETHER IT WAS TALKING OR YELLING. POLICE SPENT ALL NIGHT COLLECTING EVIDENCE AROUND THE COMPLEX AND SAY THE INCIDENT WAS NOT RANDOM. WELL, IT WAS CERTAINLY PRETTY NERVE WRACKING AFTER HEARING THE SHOTS. YOU KNOW, WE WANTED TO TELL OURSELVES IT WAS JUST FIREWORKS, BUT I THINK MY WIFE AND I KNEW FOR SURE IT WASN'T. IT WAS CERTAINLY GUNSHOTS. NOW, POLICE SAY THE SUSPECT ALSO HAD TRIAL COURT WARRANTS.